Arika have been creating events since 2001. The Archive is space to share the documentation of our work, over 600 events from the past 20 years. Browse the archive by event, artists and collections, explore using theme pairs, or use the index for a comprehensive overview.
A film performance about Guy then, and Guy now, as a metaphor for the passing of time, which of course all film is inherently about.
Profound mathematical ideas for romantics, to help us linger in the difference we share.
A chat with Eugene Thacker. Can we rethink the world as unthinkable, and without us?
Glasgow. Power electronic klutz behaviour by Kovorox sound head-honcho. Bruised bodies and broken microphones.
A chorister attempting to sing Vivaldi, with live accompaniment, while trampolining for 20 minutes.
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
Rhodri Davies plays two deconstructed harps. Lee Patterson examines the sonic properties of burning nuts.
An assembly to try and provide some experiential and theoretical resources for the renewal of a certain affective, extra-political sociality, in the face of one of our great adversaries; the forces of colonial, imperial, genocidal denial.
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
A kind of performed installation of searing noise and silence, where we’re not sure who the performer is, when it starts or ends or even who it’s for.
Do art forms like black radical poetry, free jazz and improvisation create a space for the performance of freedom? Did they ever? And can they still do so now?
We asked Christoph to come and give a sort of informal talk, raising some of his ideas about sound and image, and playing/ showing a few examples.
